# What celebrities have committed Welsh acts? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 11, 2005, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-have-committed-welsh-acts/294023 "2005-03-11T14:35:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-have-committed-welsh-acts/294023/1 "2005-03-11T14:35:35Z")
Wasn’t David Bowie born in a town by the name of Way-too-many-ys-in-the-name-ington-upon-flem? What other celebs have come from the land which, when bored, terrorizes the countryside with close harmony singing? ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-have-committed-welsh-acts/294023/2 "2005-03-11T14:43:53Z")
Catherine Zeta Jones is from Swansea, Wales as is Anthony Hopkins. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-have-committed-welsh-acts/294023/3 "2005-03-11T14:45:57Z")
Some other Welsh performers? Well, Tom Jones, for one. It’s not unusual. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-have-committed-welsh-acts/294023/4 "2005-03-11T14:47:15Z")
To be loved by any sheep. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-have-committed-welsh-acts/294023/5 "2005-03-11T14:49:22Z")
Charlotte Church. ---
**Author:** ![Ponster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponster/32/17081_2.png) [@Ponster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponster)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-have-committed-welsh-acts/294023/6 "2005-03-11T14:50:35Z")
**Cat Jones** will be around later no doubt to tell us all about the famous people that her homeland has produced but until then some Welsh bands : Manic Street Preachers Super Furry Animals Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci And I guess that Richard Burton is the most famous of all. ---
**Author:** ![Ponster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponster/32/17081_2.png) [@Ponster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponster)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-have-committed-welsh-acts/294023/7 "2005-03-11T14:52:55Z")
Oh, just thought of… King Henry VII of England and Dylan Thomas ! ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-have-committed-welsh-acts/294023/8 "2005-03-11T14:53:49Z")
There’s a neat site called the [IMDB.](http://www.imdb.com/Find?select=Bios&for=%22wales%2C+UK%22) Roald Dahl. Timothy Dalton. Ioan Gruffudd (who’d have guessed?) and a cast of thousands ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-have-committed-welsh-acts/294023/9 "2005-03-11T14:58:44Z")
Tom Jones, look you Micheal Aspel, whos boots are these shoes. Tommy Cooper,is that jacket my raincoat then. Dawn French, isnt it. Rolf Harris - parents were from Methyr Tydfil, boyo Grhyff Rees Jones, but you would not guess it from his name would you. Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowen, get you from here Sir Harry Secombe, ooh, he’s fallen in the water. Paula Yates, tube and Micheal Hutchings fame Shirley Bassey- Tiger Bay Richard Burton - No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space Anthony Hopkins - …with a nice chianti…shsh shhs schlup ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-have-committed-welsh-acts/294023/10 "2005-03-11T15:01:53Z")
What a bunch of [goons.](http://www.thegoonshow.co.uk/) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-have-committed-welsh-acts/294023/11 "2005-03-11T15:02:59Z")
David Lloyd George (born in Manchester I grant you but as Welsh as the hills) Colin Jackson (Athletics) King Arthur Saint Patrick (prior to kidnapping by savage Irish Pirates) ( **Ponster** - you have learned your lessons well cariad 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![Ponster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponster/32/17081_2.png) [@Ponster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponster)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-have-committed-welsh-acts/294023/12 "2005-03-11T15:07:56Z")
> [@Cat Jones](#): > > Saint Patrick (prior to kidnapping by savage Irish Pirates) Hardly savage, he went on to become King of Ireland he did ! ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-have-committed-welsh-acts/294023/13 "2005-03-11T15:13:22Z")
Cerys Matthews from Catatonia. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-have-committed-welsh-acts/294023/14 "2005-03-11T15:21:34Z")
Frank Lloyd Wright (his motto was “Y Gwir yn Erbyn y Byd” - truth agaisnt the world) Bryn Terfel Julian Lennon who lived in the same small town as [this guy](http://www.jim-rowlands.com) (go on give the MP3s a whirl!) Ryan Giggs Micheal Owen Samuel Ellis, the ‘little Welshman’ who owned and ran on a bar on which NY island ? Not a celeb. as such but all the easy ones have gone - CEO of Sony, Sir Howard Stringer Tenuous but true … Kylie Minogue’s is from Measteg on her mother’s side and of course we all know that young Elvis’ family take their name from the **Presili** Hills in South West Wales, as with so many immigrants the spelling got a bit mangled is all. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-have-committed-welsh-acts/294023/15 "2005-03-11T15:32:17Z")
> [@Scott\_plaid](#): > > Wasn’t David Bowie born in a town by the name of Way-too-many-ys-in-the-name-ington-upon-flem? With a name like David Jones he may well have some Welsh on him, but he was born in Brixton (South London). ---
**Author:** ![Ponster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponster/32/17081_2.png) [@Ponster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponster)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-have-committed-welsh-acts/294023/16 "2005-03-11T15:36:22Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > …but he was born in Brixton (South London). But Ziggy Stardust looks Welsh though. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-have-committed-welsh-acts/294023/17 "2005-03-11T15:38:25Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > With a name like David Jones he may well have some Welsh on him, but he was born in Brixton (South London). The ‘Bowie’ was adpoted to avoid confusion with Davy Jones of The Monkees :dubious: > [@](#): > > Hardly savage, he went on to become King of Ireland he did ! You trying to tell me there’s hope for savage Irishmen **Ponster**? ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-have-committed-welsh-acts/294023/18 "2005-03-11T15:47:45Z")
I know why I thought of David Bowie! It’s because I heard the Welsh band Stereophonics opened for him once, and I must have gotten the facts mixed up in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-have-committed-welsh-acts/294023/19 "2005-03-11T16:57:51Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > With a name like David Jones he may well have some Welsh on him, but he was born in Brixton (South London). Was just about to make that correction myself. He’s a Londoner through and through. Although [Christian Bale](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000288/) often plays Americans in films (including the title character in **American Psycho** ), he is a Welshman – born in Haverfordwest. As a matter of trivia, Bale’s dad David is now Mr. Gloria Steinem! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-have-committed-welsh-acts/294023/20 "2005-03-11T17:17:19Z")
Just to keep up with the Joneses, there’s also Terry Jones (of Mony Python). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-have-committed-welsh-acts/294023.md?page=2)